Comments on: NEW e-petition to ban driven grouse shootinghttps://raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com/2016/03/21/new-e-petition-to-ban-driven-grouse-shooting/
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 21:03:07 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Sandrahttps://raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com/2016/03/21/new-e-petition-to-ban-driven-grouse-shooting/#comment-132040
Sun, 24 Apr 2016 21:01:48 +0000http://raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com/?p=10964#comment-132040Often what people fail to realise is that much of the management carried out in order to maintain grouse populations also increases populations of other species. Licenses for killing ‘vermin’ are legal for a reason, if some predators were left unmanaged, there would be no ecosystem left and habitats would be gone. One could argue that is natures course however in this day and age, rural habitats are in decline due to human expansion and humans removing rural areas, remove the capacity for an unmanaged ecosystem without allowing more species to become extinct. People saying shooting hares is inhumane…what about leaving them to starve? Or having to remove them from areas populated by humans because the expanding population means they don’t have enough to eat?
]]>By: Debbiehttps://raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com/2016/03/21/new-e-petition-to-ban-driven-grouse-shooting/#comment-130245
Tue, 22 Mar 2016 09:10:23 +0000http://raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com/?p=10964#comment-130245It’s sick!
]]>By: dave angelhttps://raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com/2016/03/21/new-e-petition-to-ban-driven-grouse-shooting/#comment-130240
Tue, 22 Mar 2016 07:38:26 +0000http://raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com/?p=10964#comment-130240Ronnie, I’m sure that if Westminster banned driven grouse shooting in England Holyrood would probably follow their lead and ban it in Scotland.

And if driven grouse shooting is banned then the culling of mountain hares would most likely stop too.

]]>By: Marianhttps://raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com/2016/03/21/new-e-petition-to-ban-driven-grouse-shooting/#comment-130238
Tue, 22 Mar 2016 06:18:22 +0000http://raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com/?p=10964#comment-130238Presumably because it is what they are employed to do and they are proud of their good work. That’s the problem, that this slaughter is legal.

But we have to remember they are exercising ‘voluntary restraint’ – think how many more they would be killing if they were not so ‘restrained’…

]]>By: Debbiehttps://raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com/2016/03/21/new-e-petition-to-ban-driven-grouse-shooting/#comment-130219
Mon, 21 Mar 2016 21:24:20 +0000http://raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com/?p=10964#comment-130219Signed and shared. Why would you stand in front of all those poor bodies for a photo?!
]]>By: cairntonhttps://raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com/2016/03/21/new-e-petition-to-ban-driven-grouse-shooting/#comment-130215
Mon, 21 Mar 2016 19:33:22 +0000http://raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com/?p=10964#comment-130215That picture of the massacred hares is horrific. How is it that our fellow beings are standing there grinning over them? So sad.
]]>By: Glennis Rodgershttps://raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com/2016/03/21/new-e-petition-to-ban-driven-grouse-shooting/#comment-130211
Mon, 21 Mar 2016 18:56:09 +0000http://raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com/?p=10964#comment-130211Cruel and revolting.
]]>By: Chris Robertshttps://raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com/2016/03/21/new-e-petition-to-ban-driven-grouse-shooting/#comment-130206
Mon, 21 Mar 2016 16:52:27 +0000http://raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com/?p=10964#comment-130206Signed, lets consign this atrocious activity to the history books.
]]>By: Ronnie Grahamhttps://raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com/2016/03/21/new-e-petition-to-ban-driven-grouse-shooting/#comment-130196
Mon, 21 Mar 2016 13:52:29 +0000http://raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com/?p=10964#comment-130196Hi RPS, Could you please let me know if this petition is only to ban driven grouse shooting in England or is it also to ban driven grouse shooting in Scotland and the rest of the UK
I can’t seem to find any information on this point either on this blog or on Mark Avery’s blog or in the wording of the petition.
I was under the impression that such matters of shooting and conservation were devolved to the Scottish Government. If this is the case then how will banning driven grouse shooting in England bring about an end to the obscene killing of mountain hares in Scotland?
I wish Mark Avery every success with his petition but in all matters such as these transparency is of the utmost importance.
]]>By: Marianhttps://raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com/2016/03/21/new-e-petition-to-ban-driven-grouse-shooting/#comment-130193
Mon, 21 Mar 2016 12:55:37 +0000http://raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com/?p=10964#comment-130193Passed onto our group too.
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